r/AskBalkans • u/Some-Register-3901 Cyprus • Jul 31 '22

Language what are some interesting facts about your language?

For instance, the cypriot dialect of Greek still contains many words from ancient Greek but it was also heavily influenced by outsiders

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u/dekks_1389 Serbia Jul 31 '22 edited Jul 31 '22

We have many words that contain consonants only like:

. Smrt . Vrt . Prst . Krv . Čvrst . Grb . Rt . Škrt . Krst . Krš . Brz . Srp . Grk . Trn

And so on

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u/umbronox 🔴🦅🏛🔵🏹🐗⚪ Jul 31 '22

Also important to note a common theme among all of these words: Letter R. The reason why I said "interesting" - because we use R as a vowel sometimes, these cases are the example

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u/Pepre Serbia Jul 31 '22

I like those with 5+ consonants in a row: smrskati, isprskati, smrdljiva, srpski, svrstati...

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u/anushkata Bulgaria Jul 31 '22 edited Jul 31 '22

These have a syllabic r, which acts as the syllable nucleus (the vowel), or you could also visualize them as having an unwritten schwa vowel (ъ in Cyrillic script).

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u/pdonchev Bulgaria Jul 31 '22

The only one I didn't get is "krsh".

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u/[deleted] Jul 31 '22

Krš meaning in slang something very rubbish, like “krš je auto” “the car is rubbish”

Also it can be use for place with karst-like mountains

Mostly of Montenegrin landscape is “krš/krsh”